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Serena Chen | 颐March 5, 2018Cajon/Perc Videos

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🇹🇭 Reunited with my friend @tontrakul_k recently and it made me miss Bangkok much. 👉🏻 Swipe to see our BTS jam sessions with Ton playing on the Ponglang and Khaen. 👉🏻 So good to meet and jam again after 4 years - we're totally hangout buddies now! My เพื่อน! 💙 👉🏻👉🏻 And I do wonder how everyone else is doing! Especially my little rockstar Art, hope he's closer to his dream of rocking out on Mars. 🤘🏻 Catch the longer clip of the ep with him dropping some wisdom on my IGTV.

Thank you guys so much for the crazy response on this vid! I'm really humbled by all of it... I still have a long way to go learning Konnakols and I have so many more things I wanna learn to expand my rhythm language. @percuss.io deserves huge props for this dope transcription, reposting their awesome version so you guys can see the transcription to this intriguing piece by @hemanthlakshman111 too. ☮️💙

🇸🇬 This is my country, this is my flag. 🇸🇬 . "If all that we are is what we believe Then I know I’ve got to be the change I want to see How easy we forget that everything takes time No, nothing's ever perfect, but I still call you mine" - These words by @wherewascharlie: 💯 . Thank you for all the times you let me do my thing and also for all the times you didn't because boundaries breed creativity. You're not perfect, but which country is really; I love you all the same. #happybirthdaysingapore

Sorry for the week long silence! It's been hectic preparing for this concert which ended last Sunday where I had to coordinate things, take care of my friends who came from Thailand and Vietnam to perform, spoke and sang some lines on stage AND play music. I wanted to try something that would put me out of my comfort zone and damn right it did. #seekdiscomfort Definitely an experience to remember for me. Swipe for highlights of my week condensed: 👆🏻 @littlelinhboo from 🇻🇳 who plays the Danbau 👉🏻 My multi-talented friend @tontrakul_k from 🇹🇭 and homeboy @ritxuflute 👉🏻 Ton playing the Khaen #tontrakul 👉🏻 His awesome solo item which is a drum n bass version of a chant from the Isan tribe in Thailand 👉🏻 me still energetic during soundcheck 👉🏻 my sinseh @tamagohdrummer's solo opening item 👉🏻 Our MD @elainechanmusic 👉🏻 my "brother" @hughmonkus 👉🏻 finale item Home 👉🏻 group pic, band! (missing Elaine)

My #transformationtuesday obsession finally recorded for posterity! I love this piece by @hemanthlakshman111 for its play on *time* - mathematically AND musically. Clue: it's at tempo 60bpm: deets of this fun 20 count pattern in the original post 👉🏻 @percuss.io Speaking of which, I am so thrilled to have found them as a new resource for learning new rhythm pieces and solos!!! They even have Konnakols which are transcribed in Western notation 😱 (you're welcome). Thank you again @percuss.io and @hemanthlakshman111 for letting me interpret this piece my way. 🙌🏻☮️🖤

2014: I remember this jam in Bangkok as the moment I went "omg I can play drum and bass on the cajon?!" You can see me struggling here #excitedmuch I had only just begun practicing strokes with my fingers in 2013. The heart is willing but the fingers are weak. 👉🏻: 2016 👉🏻: 2018 👉🏻: 2018 💭 I have always been a loud hand drummer and my fingers were the least nimble body parts - always a little swollen and stiff. But I resolved to change that and learn finger techniques by hook or by crook. I seeked out resources and teachers and that journey is way too long for this already long caption. Since then, I've had too many close to career suicide practice sessions working on my fingers. I never noticed it getting easier (but obviously it did) and one day, even double strokes dropped in! 👋🏻 😭 I still have a long way to go, but these discoveries of growth are little victories in my often self-deprecating musician life. So today I am thankful for this and I'll have a glass of wine while at it. 🙃🍷

#tbt Watching old videos is an instant self-motivation, reminding yourself how much you've grown. #practicemakesprogress Full video on #IGTV. New ep out tonight! x

You wouldn't be wrong if you thought this was my favourite shirt. 🖤 📷: @lousycameraman

I was thrilled to be able to weave 2 of my favourite genres, rock and drum & bass, into this opening movement of my solo piece – injecting a little bit of my own soundscape into my friend's. Full video on #IGTV. 🖤 Epic of Gilgamesh by @nagutarecordsthefreq can be found on @cdbabymusic and iTunes.